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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Guy de Maupassant

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

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